Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Allotriocarida > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Infraclass Apterygota > Order Archaeognatha > Family Machilidae > Subfamily Petrobiinae > Genus Petrobius

Petrobius maritimus (Leach, 1809)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Petrobius*	Leach, 1809	accepted genus name
*Halomachilis*	Verhoeff, 1912	generic synonym
*Petromachilis*	Rilley, 1915	generic synonym

Species group names

*Machilis maritimus*	Leach, 1809	objective synonym
*Petrobius silvestrii*	Womersley, 1927	subjective synonym
*Petromachilis longicornis*	Rilley, 1915	subjective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: strandgast

English: sea bristletail; shore bristletail

Literature

basis of record	Legakis, A. (2001). Insecta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 323-324
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Cheng, L. (Ed.). (1976). Marine insects. North-Holland Publishing Company: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 0-444-11213-8. XII, 581 pp.